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ArticleZoological letters2018

A new cochliodont anterior tooth plate from the Mississippian of Alabama (USA) having implications for the origin of tooth plates from tooth files.

Wayne M Itano, Lance L Lambert

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Wayne M Itano1Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9709-2436
Lance L Lambert2University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249 USA.

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Abstract

backgroundPaleozoic holocephalian tooth plates are rarely found articulated in their original positions. When they are found isolated, it is difficult to associate the small, anterior tooth plates with the larger, more posterior ones. Tooth plates are presumed to have evolved from fusion of tooth files. However, there is little fossil evidence for this hypothesis.

resultsWe report a tooth plate having nearly perfect bilateral symmetry from the Mississippian (Chesterian Stage) Bangor Limestone of Franklin County, Alabama, USA. The high degree of symmetry suggests that it may have occupied a symphyseal or parasymphyseal position. The tooth plate resembles

conclusionThe new tooth plate is interpreted as an anterior tooth plate of a chondrichthyan fish. It is referred to

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AlabamaBangor limestoneCarboniferousChondrichthyesCochliodontiformesConodontsMississippian

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